"By all accounts, she's perfect," said mom, Brenda, who got to hold Abby within a few minutes after the birth.

"She's got kinky hair, honey!" exclaimed dad, Larry.

"Everything went really well," said Dr. Linda Moore, Brenda's obstetrician. "It was good to hear her cry."

Big brother Jack Seamus Killian, 3, got to meet his baby sister when she was about an hour old. He pronounced her cute and very little. "We were waiting!" he assured his mom in the recovery room.

The Oregonian has followed Brenda's case since she and her doctors chose to go ahead with treatment for breast cancer, including chemo, in spite of the possible risk to her fetus. Look for a full story about the birth and the reaction to earlier stories about Brenda and her family in Wednesday's How We Live section.